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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DA081

1978-09-17 MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN, United States Fatal 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1EC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BOEING A75N1(PT17)

Engine

P&W R-985 SERIES (450 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19981006

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A00069

Registrant of record

CHERRY DOUGLAS E

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

CESSNA 411 · N1EC

Damage

Destroyed

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

IMC

Phase of flight

Z

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

000004110094

Total time

3,107 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Flight instructor (CFI)

Total hours

2,200

Age

26

Investigator remarks

INJURY INDEX AND DAMAGE PRESUMED.

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 4009. Source file NTSB_1978_3_4009.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type. Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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